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carefully, using the McCullagh system out¬ 
lined in an earlier chapter. 
In the case of Byrd, however, she had too 
much fundamental good sense to do wrong 
continually, and the way I corrected this 
retrieving fault in her was by working her 
as much as possible with other dogs that 
were splendid retrievers; and it was not very 
difficult to make her jealous of the praise I 
gave the other dogs when they retrieved the 
birds. In order to get some of this praise 
herself, she one day ran to a dead quail and 
brought it back to me. From then on 
everything was all right again, because I 
immediately made it evident to her in every 
possible way how pleased I was. We under¬ 
stood each other—and to the date of this 
writing there have been no further failures to 
retrieve. I can only add that during her 
second season Byrd developed into an ex¬ 
ceptionally efficient retriever, of quail in par¬ 
ticular, and now has a record of much good 
work in this line to her credit. 
